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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
Art
"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it."
Imagination
"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
Language
"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise."
Heart
"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."
Encouragement
"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek."
Language
"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"
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"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Poetry
"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
Quality
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